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  • 5 months later...

After a quiet couple of months on the work front I've now gone back to where I was working last autumn in the Littleport area to help with the blight spraying. First time I've been on a sprayer for 4 or 5 years but soon got the hang of it again. It's an Amazone Panterra with 36m boom and GPS section control, far superior to the trailed John Deere machine I last used.

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I'm working for Richard and Mark Taylor at Little Downham/Littleport, covering land between Waterbeach and Welney as they grow several acres of potatoes on rented ground as well as their own.

I've been back on the 8345rt today discing set aside land to try and get more black grass to chit, bit of a change from spraying!

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They are the opposite end of Little Downham to Jackson's, heading towards Pymoor. They also have a Case Puma 210, 215 and 140 along with a NH TM155 and Ford TW-25.

I'm only about 5 miles from Wissington myself on the Kings Lynn side of it so not far away.

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That's the guys, yeah the warehouse there is their office and potato store/grading line/packing station. They own all those builds set back off the A10 on that side but none of the land there.

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I passed a Puma 210 coming down the B road that runs parallel to the A10 just behind their buildings and it looked knackered!!  The paint was really badly faded and it couldn't have been more than 7 years old :- ...............not seen any equivalent make in such poor condition around the fens!

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It's far from knackered just done several hours now and is outside a lot of the time, doesn't help that it does all the fertiliser spreading so has had some abuse to the paintwork, it's pictured on duals a few pages back in this topic.

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Its been a while since I posted in here, there's been a lot going on in my personal life involving becoming single and moving house. The new year has got off to a slow start for me but things are starting to pick up now, I'm now providing training services through 4 different groups across Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. I've expanding into the Pa2a sprayer course as well now with plans to do a forklift instructors course in March to allow me to carry out training in that area as well. I've not done any farm work since last November but am starting with a contractor for a few weeks as of tomorrow carrying out hedge cutting for him with a New Holland T6080 and Shelbourne Reynolds cutter, it should keep me going up until I do the instructors course with the possibility of several weeks de-stoning elsewhere afterwards. I'll try to get some pictures along the way, for now here's one of the T6080 when I had a go with it last Friday.

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I don't mind the T6080, I did in fact drive this one for a day on a de-stoner back in March last year, its not a bad place to spend the day at any rate and certainly a good hedge cutting tractor with the large side door and seemed stable enough with the cutter out at full reach.

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18 minutes ago, chris.watson said:

Nice outfit to drive there Gav, sorry to hear your now single. Good luck with the instructors course's. I know from what I pay for training that you will earn a decent crust mate.

Thanks Chris, I'm happier now than I've been for a while. It was touch and go before Christmas with what to do work wise, go back to full time farm work or invest in the training and stay self employed but with two more training groups and now talk of a third wanting my services the decision has sort of been made for me. As long as I can keep my hand in on the operating side of things still then I'll be happy.

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Cheers Smithy, I had planned on going to LAMMA on Wednesday but now with at least 4-5 weeks hedge cutting to get through I've not got time now, Martyn or yourself would only extract some money from me anyway!

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So you met me for the first time at Spalding in October,  and then soon after things went pear shaped big time!!::)...........................But, it all turned out to be a blessing in disguise and suddenly your garden is looking very rosy indeed:)...........................Good luck with the courses Gav.

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